By Anon.
Date: 20 April 1997

Can I play your guitar?

	You know, the best stuff happens in moments that nobody ever writes 

about. It's not at the church where you show commitment and it's often not in

bed where you love the most. 

	

	I play guitar and I take it with me almost everywhere I go, so it's 

definately in the back seat of my car when I go on a date. Hey, you never 

know when a request for "Tangerine" may surface. 

	

	So we were driving one evening, back to Waterloo Ontario. It was so 

nice and warm and I had the sunroof open so I could feel that I had experienced

at least a little of the temporarily great weather. We were quiet for a long 

time.

 		

	She looked over at me for just a split second, a curious grin on her

gorgeous face and her eyes mischeviously lowered, right before she said,



	"Can I play your guitar?"

	"Uh, sure, go ahead" I said.



	I knew full well that she had never played guitar before in her life. 

So she reached back between the front seats and pulled the guitar out onto her lap. 

She curled her tiny fingers around the neck and strummed it awkwardly with her 

other hand. I looked over at her, and my heart just melted right then.



	She looked so cute and small with the guitar in her lap. It was way to

big for her and I just loved the way she looked holding it. She couldn't play 

to save her life, but she just kind of looked up at me with this big smile on her 

face and kept making soft, horrible noises on the guitar.



	I don't believe I've ever felt so much for any other girl at any other

moment than I did then. She was so willing to get closer to me that she

wanted to be completly in touch with the thing I loved most. I just felt like 

she found a way to skip past all the physical stuff and stroke my soul directly. 

Every little movement of her hands over the strings just pulled myself closer 

to her. 



	I've had some girlfriends since then. Most of them were better 

relationships than the one I had with her. But no girl had ever done that since.

I wish someone would. That's the best I've ever felt about any girl.